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Sunday, November 6, 2016 (8 pm) | Fulkerson Recital Hall, HSU
Helen Sung, piano; John Ellis, tenor sax; Boris Koslov, bass; Terreon Gully, drums

When she was growing up in Houston, Helen Sung’s parents wanted her to become a doctor. Luckily for us, she followed her muse instead. She came to jazz after extensive classical training, enrolling in the inaugural class at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams piano competition, she made her way to New York, where she honed her chops with Clark Terry, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, and the Mingus Big Band. With five albums under her belt as a leader, she has a new quartet featuring one of her Mingus bandmates, bassist Boris Koslov; yeoman drummer Terreon Gully; and tenor man John Ellis’s mix of New Orleans roots and New York hip. One reviewer famously said that Sung transports listeners to “a place of passion, adventure and drama” with “truckloads of rhythm.” We say: All aboard!

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